ONE of the most pretentious additions to Beverly Hills is the new ten room cut stone home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Karge, 2035 W. 99th Street. The house is of Spanish architecture.
The stone colonnade on the front veranda, with its hand-carved ornamentations, enhance the exterior. The roof is of red Spanish tile and the floor of the veranda is laid with random broken slabs of stone. A two-car garage, also of cut stone, is found at the rear, with a stone wall connecting it with the house. The wall is also extended along the east end of the site to form a court yard with a garden. Here a fountain, in a sculptured design, is the feature.
The entrance, on 99th Street, opens to a large reception hall, the floor of which is laid in Spanish tile in five colors. The hall leads to the staircase, to the living room, dining room, kitchen, and to the auxiliary hall at the south, which in turn opens to a suite of rooms.
Bronze gates, imported from Italy, open from the hall to the living room, two steps lower. This room, with its beamed and decorated ceiling, contains a huge Spanish fireplace, with a fender seat, in the north wall. Full length casement windows on this side open to the veranda, and a row of windows form a wide bay at the west end. The walls here are finished in an old ivory tint of palm plaster. The light fixtures are the wall type.
The dining room, to the left as one enters the hall, has exposures on the north and east, with a wide window seat on the latter side where the room extends beyond the line of the breakfast room adjacent on the east. The walls in this room are paneled; the color is old ivory. The fixtures are of the crystal pendant type. China cabinets are set diagonally in two corners.
French doors lead to the breakfast room, the northeast corner of this floor and the kitchen, on the southeast, opens to a rear service porch. The kitchen contains electric refrigeration, all the latest built-in arrangements and an incinerator. A rubber tile floor is used here and in the breakfast room and the kitchen has a tile wainscoting.
The unusual feature of the first floor arrangement is the bedroom suite on the south side. The master bedroom occupies the southwest corner, with a large bath, done in orchid tile, and another bedroom also adjacent on the south side. Both bedrooms are done in tones of green and are unusually spacious. The floor plan also provides cross ventilation.
The upper floor contains a bedroom, on the northeast, a bath, on the center east, at the head of the stairs, and a maid’s room, on the southwest. The rest of the second floor space is given over to an attic and storage rooms.
The basement, utilizing the entire limits of the house, is unusually well finished. There is a reception hall, opening from an ornate basement entrance on the northeast. The space under the living room contains a billiard room, with a fireplace. To the east, under the dining room, is the children’s playroom, beautifully finished. The extreme east of the basement contains the laundry and the south side contains the oil-burning heating plant.
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